Check-rower and drill



(No Model.)

1). G. SHANER.

CHECK ROWER AND DRILL.

No. 283,824. Patented Aug. 28, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID G. SHANER, OF BLUE MOUND, ILLINOIS.

CH ECK ROWER AND DRILL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,824, dated August 28, 1883,

Application filed December 8, 1882. (No model.)

To ail whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID G. SHANER, of Blue Mound, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Check-Bower and Drill;

and drill mechanisms in which the seed-slides are operated bya rope passing over a horizontal grooved wheel, operating a cam, which again communicates a reciprocating motion to the seed-slides; and it consists in the im proved construction and combination of parts of such a mechanism, which. enables the machine to be turned at the end of the field, without the necessity of removing or shifting the check-rope in the machine, by simply moving the stake or anchor holding the end of the rope, as will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates a portion of the frame of the check-rower, in the center of which a wheel, B, is pivoted, having a grooved rim, 0, in which the cheek-rope D travels. The rope is brought to bear in the grooved rim by two guide-pulleys, F, pivoted upon the frame near the rim of the wheel, and turns the wheel as it is drawn across the frame. At the sides of the frame the rope passes over two pulleys, E, hinged upon the vertically-bent ends of two curved and outwardly-bent arms, 6, from whence the two ends of the rope pass in opposite directions to both ends of the field. It

will be seen that, by carrying the rope over these hinged pulleys, when the machine arrives at the end of one row it may be turned and proceed up the next row. By simply moving the stake or anchor holding the end of the rope, the hinged pulleys will swing over, allowing the rope to pass in at the end at which it was passing out, and vice versa.

The wheel B has fastened to its under side a triangular plate or cam, G, having a perforation, H, in each corner, in which lugs I may be inserted, which engage with two rounded projections, M, upon the inner edge of the an nular lower end, J, of levers or arms K, pivotedupon a bracket, L, The lever K and the bracket L have each a series of holes, N and N, into which a pin, 0, fits, upon which arm K has its fulcrum, so that by changing the pin from one hole to another the length of stroke of the free end of the arm may be adjusted at will. As the wheel B is rotated the cams or lugs I will engage with the projections M, rocking arm K, and the frequency of the strokes of the arm may be increased or decreased by having one or all three of the lugs inserted.

The pulleys E are pivoted between bent plates E, hinged upon the ends of the arms 0, and are prevented from swinging upward by pins f, fastened upon the outward-bent ends of the arms, and projecting up, through slots f in the bent portion of plates E.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States In a cheek-rower and drill mechanism, the combination of the reversible blocks E E, hinged upon curved and bent arms c upon the sides of the frame, fixed guide -pul1eys F, grooved wheel B, triangular plate G, having removable lugs I, and oscillating arm K, having lower annular portion, J, )rovided with projections M upon its inner edge, and adjust ably pivoted upon bracket L, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID G. SHANER. 

